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Title: August Strindberg : the spirit of revolt : studies and impressions
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy), 1878-1963
Subjects: Strindberg, August, 1849-1912
Publisher: London : Stanley Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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h disturbedhis peace. At supper he gently touched thechilds hand in order to help her. She criedout, and, drawing back her hand with a lookfull of horror, said, He hurts me. Anotherevening he was humiliated by the mysteriousconduct of the child. Pointing at an invisibleperson behind Strindbergs chair, she beganto cry with fear, and said, The sweep isstanding there. Her grandmother whobelieved in clairvoyance in children madethe sign of the cross over the childs head,and a painful silence fell upon the company. Whilst he accepted these trials as punitivemessages and warnings, his scarified soulbecame receptive to Roman Catholic in-fluences. His wifes mother and aunt wereCatholics; his child had been brought upin that faith. He had seen human soulssanctified by a catholic mysticism whichbore humility and fortitude. The symbols,the certainty, the rich imagery of the CatholicChurch had appealed to him, when thepoverty of philosophical speculation hadmade him despair of human intelligence.
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SELF-TORMENTOR AND VISIONARY 273 He had bought a rosary in Paris because itwas beautiful, and because the evil oneswere afraid of the cross. One day an imageof the Madonna, carried through the streets ofParis on a cart following a hearse, had strangelyattracted him. Like Tassos vision of theVirgin in the midst of his feverish torment bynoises and tinkling bells, Strindbergs gazeon the image of all-merciful motherhoodbrought comfort. At first attracted toCatholic prayers, and to the ideal of themonastic life by the instinct which makesthe man in pain seek an anodyne, he wasgradually led to a deeper understandingof esoteric Christianity. Swedenborg con-tinued to reveal the mysteries of symbolsand correspondences to him ; in the sceneryaround the Austrian village he found, notonly an exact replica of a Swedenborgianhell, but the original of a landscape whichhad precipitated itself in the zinc bathused in his gold-making experiments inParis. Strindbergs early blasphemies and atheismwere t

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